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The aim of this paper is to study the theory of cohomology annihilators over commutative Gorenstein rings. We adopt a triangulated category point of view and study the annihilation of stable category of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules. We prove that in dimension one the cohomology annihilator ideal and the conductor ideal coincide under mild assumptions. We present a condition on a ring homomorphism between Gorenstein rings which allows us to carry the cohomology annihilator of the domain to that of the codomain. As an application, we generalize the Milnor-Jung formula for algebraic curves to their double branched covers. We also show that the cohomology annihilator of a Gorenstein local ring is contained in the cohomology annihilator of its Henselization and in dimension one the cohomology annihilator of its completion. Finally, we investigate a relation between the cohomology annihilator of a Gorenstein ring and stable annihilators of its noncommutative resolutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Stable cohomology is a generalization of Tate cohomology to associative rings, first defined by Pierre Vogel. For a commutative local ring R with residue field k , stable cohomology modules Ext ˆ R n (k , k) , defined for n ∈ Z , have been studied by Avramov and Veliche. Stable cohomology carries a structure of Z -graded k -algebra. One of the main goals of this paper is to prove that, for a class of Gorenstein rings, this algebra is a trivial extension of absolute cohomology Ext R (k , k) and a shift of Hom k (Ext R (k , k) , k). We use this information to characterize the rings R for which stable cohomology is graded-commutative. Stable cohomology is connected through an exact sequence to bounded cohomology. We use this connection to understand the algebra structure of Ext ˆ R (k , k) by investigating the structure of bounded cohomology Ext ‾ R (k , k) as a graded Ext R (k , k) -bimodule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: A theorem from commutative algebra due to Köthe and Cohen-Kaplansky states that, “a commutative ring R has the property that every R-module is a direct sum of cyclic modules if and only if R is an Artinian principal ideal ring”. Therefore, an interesting natural question of this sort is “whether the same is true if one only assumes that every ideal is a direct sum of cyclic modules?” The goal of this paper is to answer this question in the case R is a finite direct product of commutative Noetherian local rings. The structure of such rings is completely described. In particular, this yields characterizations of all commutative Artinian rings with this property. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]